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. the connections between Zenobia, Naum’s most celebrated work, and André Breton’s Nadja, another equally mysterious, surrealist masterpiece1, there has been no. “prozopoem”2 whose narrative discourse, in the manner of Breton’s Nadja, borders on poetic representation and brings up the same unanswerable question formulated in Michel Beaujour’s “Qu’est-ce que Nadja?”: Is Nadja fiction or poetry?3 From this perspective, Zenobia is. dream process into his waking state; and a belief in Breton’s concept of hasard objectif (objective chance or coincidence) as.

. Femme 100 Têtes, 1929! “As we will see, the welcome Breton accords to representations, to signs, is very great indeed, for.;Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all,” – Breton, 1928! Beauty must transgress not only academic notions of Beauty.

During the period under review, in the absence, ofcourse, of all seriously discouraging exterior events, surrealistactivity remained strictly confined to its first theoretical premise,continuing all the while to be the vehicle of that total``non-conformism'' which, as we have seen, was the binding feature inthe coming together of those who took part in it, and the cause,during the first few years after the war, of an uninterrupted seriesof adhesions. No coherent political or social attitude, however, .

This belief witnesses to a prevailing view that I look upon today as being extremely mistaken, the view that thought is supreme over matter. The definition of surrealism that has passed into the dictionary, a definition taken from the Manifesto of 1924, takes account only of this entirely idealist disposition and (for voluntary reasons of simplification and amplification destined to influence in my mind the future of this definition) does so in terms that suggest that I deceived myself at the time in .